MK1 CAMPER REVERSION

[transitgeoff]

well youve seen my little ex camper chassie cab eh Fred now with a cab back fitted and a small window

[FredTransit]

Yes I have, and I know it's going to be another show winner. I was particularly impressed you used the right cab back. I would like to do this again with a CI and make a Mk1 luton, for blocking work.

What I don't understand is how few people get it. They see a bad paint job and some mould and think the van has had it. How does this fit with the classics movement?

[rover]

Nice one Fred, and well done to everyone that chipped in with the bits to sort it too

Rover.

[Neil]

well done fred looks well,this is becoming the only way to get a swb van doing this has been happening for a while now i know of one 10 years old

[FredTransit]

Thanks Niel. Wow I didn't know reversions had been going on that long! Before anybody mentions it, the only deliberate mistake is we didn't reproduce the louvres in the passenger side, due to lack of time. In the future though this will be done, and the reversion will be complete. The van left the factory in green, was (probably as a camper) resprayed blue then tacky white so the navy blue, apart from being film friendly, is near original, at least second time round!!

[transitgeoff]

my 69 s.w.b. HAD louvres in both sides all the early ones did, the GEC van hasnt got an o/s/r louvre

[Neil]

not havin the louvers is the givaway one of the swb vans on heartbeat has none

[FredTransit]

Yeah I know the lack of louvres is a dead giveaway, and didn't know the earlies had them on both sides. Hadn't noticed the heartbeat van/reversion but will be looking now. BUT when that's done, the former life as a camper will be undetectable, unless you take the wood out of the back. Not that I am trying to decieve anybody. If I was I wouldn't have put this in the forum!

[madmark]

i only have 1 looooover on the n/s!

[FredTransit]

Like Geoff said it's an early thing, as in the sixties vans.

[madmark]

mind you 1 is enouph to worry about!

[FredTransit]

Have you still got the plastic cover over the vent?

[madmark]

i think so ,not shure have paneled over it!

[FredTransit]

Geoff, just checked pics of Dave's 69 SWB and that only has passenger side louvres, so don't know what was going on with yours.

[madvanman]

i didnt take many pictures while working on this van
here are the ones i did take.